Question

The adventures of toto short summary of the story

Answer 1

Once there was a boy who lived along with his grandfather, grandmother and aunts. One day grandfather bought a monkey for five rupees from a Tonga-driver and was named it ‘Toto’. Grandfather decided he would add the little fellow to his private zoo. Toto was a pretty monkey and mischievous. Grandmother didn’t liked pets, she screams if she saw one. So the boy and his grandfather decided that the presence of Toto must be kept a secret. Toto was tied with a peg fastened into the wall. In attempts to get free from the peg, it tore the wallpapers and curtains.
The next day grandfather had to go to Saharanpur for collecting pension. He could not take the risk of leaving Toto with his grandson and so he took it along with him. Here, the boy was trying to convince his grandmother. Finally she was convinced to keep Toto as a pet. He was given his home, the stable with Nana - the donkey. Toto and Nana never became friends, as they fought again and again.
One day when the lunch table was set, Toto came there and started enjoying the meal of rice-pullao and grandmother screamed seeing Toto spoiling food. Toto threw a plate on her as a reaction to her action. It made its escape from window and climbed up the jackfruit tree along with a dish of rice-pullao. After finishing the dish it threw down the plate and broke it into pieces.
Finally, grandfather agreed that they could not afford the frequent loss of dishes, clothes, curtains and wallpapers and decided to sell Toto off. It was sold back to the Tonga-driver for the sum of three rupees.

Answer 2

Answer:

Toto was a pretty monkey, bought by the narrator’s grandfather from a tonga-driver for a sum of five rupees. His bright eyes sparkled with mischief beneath deep-set eyebrows, and his teeth, which were a pearly white, were very often displayed in a smile that frightened the life out of elderly Anglo–Indian ladies. Grandmother didn’t like pets at all. So, once Toto was kept in a little closet. A few hours later, when grandfather and the narrator came back to release Toto, they found that the walls, which had been covered with some ornamental paper (Wall Paper) chosen by grandfather, now stood out as naked brick and plaster. Toto had freed himself from the chain and the narrator’s blazer had been torn in shreds.

Now Toto was transferred to a big cage in the servants’ quarters where a number of grandfather’s pets lived very sociably together – a tortoise, a pair of rabbits, a tame squirrel and a goat. But the monkey wouldn’t allow any of his companions to sleep at night. So the grandfather decided to take him along to Dehra Dun the next day. When the grandfather was producing his ticket at the railway station, Toto suddenly poked his head out of the bag and gave the ticket collector a wide grin. The ticket collector charged extra three rupees from the grandfather for Toto. On another day. Toto nearly boiled himself alive in the kitchen kettle.

Once when Toto found a large dish of rice on the dining table and started eating the rice; grandmother scolded him. Toto in response threw the plate at her. An aunt of narrator came forward to save her but Toto threw a glass of water at her. Then Toto ran away with a dish of pullao, sat on jackfruit tree till evening eating the pullao. And then, in order to spite the grandmother, who had screamed at him he threw the dish down the tree and chattered with delight when it broke into pieces.

Till now, the grandfather had realized that obviously Toto was not sort of pet they could keep for long. They were not wellto-do, and could not afford the frequent loss of dishes, clothes, curtains and wallpapers. So, at last, grandfather went to the tonga-driver, and sold Toto back to him – for only three rupees.

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